Rupert Sheldrake : morphogenetic resonance

[Bled Welder]

My first impression is that this is a very abundant, productive way to proceed.  We are beginning to integrate what used to be considered the irreconcilable dichotomy of the ideal and real.  At first glance morphields (okay?) seems an abstraction from genetics, but it may be better to thing of it as the other way around, that the genetic model is a type of abstraction from what is more accurate, realer, morphieldics.  Bergson(!), Jung, and look who's--
Oh let me note this before I forget, I'm just noticing this now: primary texts of "rediscovery":John Anthony West - early ninetiesJohn Searle - early ninetiesTerrence McKenna - early ninetiesRupert Sheldrake  - early ninetiesThe Meme - close enoughRobert Bauval - early ninetiesGraham Hancock - stating the obvious, early ninetiesFoucault - early nineties
What are we doing here in 2012, for Heaven's sake!  Oy, to consider the debauchery I was engaged in the early nineties  Now my research is resting for a few weeks anyway.  Apropos, considering any human would need a rest after what occurred last time, geezuz.  While it's quite possible I am no longer human, or possibly, now that I have become once again what we once were, some of us anyway, and only some of them, it's good at this point to behave otherwise.  Somebody might contact Sheldrake and discreetly inquire if he knows anybody who has transformed through a dance with the Mother, during certain research.



> Subject: Re: Rupert Sheldrake : morphogenetic resonance
> From: brook7 at sover.net
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:42:44 -0400
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> Thanks Dave, will check those leads.
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Slowly working my way through Sheldrake's" A New Science of Life: Hypotheses of Morpophogenetic Resonance.  I t is a radical hypotheses about fields somewhat like  Newtonian gravitation or electromagnetic fields, or quantum fields,  that proposes a  morphogenetic field that is generated by and resonates through space time from forms- forms meaning everything from molecules to crystals to complete organisms and their constituent forms.  One of his goals is to make a testable hypothesis with predictions and effects that could be falsified. One of his obvious  tasks is to establish that there are serious gaps in current theory and data, and that those gaps require such a new hypothesis. He takes that on through the first third of the book and as a recurrent theme, and iterates many questions in depth concerning genetics and physics as predictors of form. About 2/3rds along now and wonder who has read any of his work?
> >> 
> >> Part of my attraction to Sheldrake is his persona. He is very modest, very humane, and incredibly brilliant but never a show off.  His search is a search for testable scientific truth that covers some of the gaps in our current science, and not a personal pursuit of fame. He is personally a Christian but was a friend and lecturer with Terrance McKenna and Ralph Abraham, so very open minded fellow. though seeming to be considerably more practical than McKenna.
> >> 
> >> Any P-listers familiar? thoughts?
> > 
> > I might even have reread it @ least in part, way back when, + maybe ts
> > "sequel' (The Presence of the Past) as well.  He's back, by the way:
> > 
> > http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
> > 
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake-review
> > 
> > For full-on SF:
> > 
> > http://www.davidbrin.com/practiceeffect1.htm
> > 
> > http://www.davidbrin.com/othersfbooks.htm#practice
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_Effect
> 
 		 	   		  
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